Henry C. Martindale

Henry Clinton Martindale ( born May 6, 1780 in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, † April 22, 1860 in Sandy Hill (now Hudson Falls ), Washington County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.

Career

Martindale graduated in 1800 from Williams College in Williamstown. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced from 1801 until his death in 1860 in Sandy Hill (New York). He was also from 1816 to 1819 as guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogates ) of Washington County and worked from 1821 to 1828 as a District Attorney.

Martindale was chosen as the Adams - Clay Democratic- Republicans in the 18th Congress. Subsequently, he was elected as Adams candidate in the 19th and 20th U.S. Congress again, and as an anti- Jacksonian to the 21th U.S. Congress. Martindale worked on 4 March 1823 to March 3, 1831 U.S. House of Representatives. Then he was again elected to the U.S. Congress and indeed as an anti- Mason in the 23th U.S. Congress, where he served from March 4, 1833 to March 3, 1835.

Later he was appointed by Governor William H. Seward to channel expert, a post which he held 1840-1843. He died in 1860 at Sandy Hill and then on the Kingsbury Cemetery, Kingsbury (New York) buried.

Family

His son was John Martindale, a Union General during the Civil War and Attorney General of New York.